Real Aliens

Real Aliens Crop Circles Mystery

"It is a mystery," concedes Colin Andrews, an electrical engineer and local
government official in Hampshire, who describes himself as one of the three
foremost researchers on the circle phenomenon. Andrews brings a brisk,
British enthusiasm to bear on the problem, but his style of study has earned
him a lot of enemies in the global scientific establishment. Some claim that
his book on the subject, "Circular Evidence", co-authored with Pat Delgado, is
rife with circular reasoning. For the record, Andrews says, "There is no
question at all that the real aliens phenomenon is beyond physics and science as we know
it to be."

"There is now an extraordinary amount of data leaning heavily in the direction
of some form of intelligence," says Andrews. I'm not saying extraterrestrial
intelligence. But I don't rule out extraterrestrial intelligence like real aliens visits." The
evidence for this equivocal comment is what Andrews calls the "precise
placement" of the circles. They never haphazardly lap over the edge of a
field, he points out, though some circles stretch hundreds of feet in
diameter. Instead, they array themselves to within a fraction of an inch of
roadways or hillsides as though they'd been placed there by an unseen hand.

Andrews tried to get the drop on the real aliens circle makers last July and August with
his Operation Blackbird--a surveillance effort he set up on the Salisbury
Plain, in the heart of circle country. His scientific equipment consisted of
thermal imaging cameras, infrared and low-light cameras, and tape recorders.
Andrews himself was home in bed when the excitement unfolded in the form of
flashing lights on one of the monitors, but a telephone call quickly summoned
him to the site at 4:00 am.

At sunrise the observers could see real aliens crop circles alright, in the fields where the
lights had been, but they turned out to be the handiwork of hoaxers. The
thermal imaging cameras had picked up the body heat of the pranksters.

"our location had been known," Andrews notes ruefully. (This is hardly
surprising, because the British press grants ample coverage to Colin Andrew's
ideas and activities.)

Shortly after the grounding of Operation Blackbird, Andrews notes, British
Army researchers got film footage of an orange light in the sky moving slowly
to the east, dipping down to ground level, and then picking up speed before
disappearing behind a dense forest. On the morrow, several circles appeared
in the path of the orange light. The film may air in a BBC special.